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Notebooks containing drafts of 'Nodion Cymdeithasfaol' or reports and minutes of meetings and committees of the South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association, 1896-1899; together with notes on some aspects of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, e.g. on Howell Harris.

A notebook containing notes on logic; Latin exercises; a commentary on portions of the Greek text of chapters 6-7 of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans; and notes on Roman history.

A notebook containing notes on forms of church government, philosophy, the early history of Capel-y-ffin Baptist Church, border antiquities (Ewyas Harold, Kilpeck, Kenderchurch, Rowlstone, Michael Church, Patricio, Craswall, etc.), characteristics of early architecture, the 'arrangement' of Llanthony Abbey, etc., together with some statistics of a Bible class at Pandy, 1873.

An essay on 'Cymreigyddion y Fenni and its work'.

A transcript of the trust deed, 26 June, 1866, of a school to be erected at Cae Plockin, parish of Llantillio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, for the education of the children and adults, or children only, of the labouring, manufacturing and other classes in the several parishes of Llantillio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, Foothog, Herefordshire, Partrishow and Llanbeder, Brecknockshire, and Llanwenarth and Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, and to be conducted upon the principles of the British and Foreign School Society. The transcript is written on the dorse of an incomplete Scripture examination script of Philip Francis, Graig, Abercanaid, Merthyr.

Holograph and autograph letters:- [Thomas] Twynog Jeffreys, Rhymney, to [John] Davies, 1904-1909 (the publication of Tannau Twynog, reminiscences of Llanddeusant), J. A. Bradney, Tal-y-coed, Monmouth, to [John] Davies, 1904-1916 (the writer's pedigree and his genealogical researches, etc.), J. Thomas Watkins, Penycae, Swansea VAlley, to J[ohn] davies, 1910 (a request for the writer's pedigree), John Davies, Pandy, to Ben Price, Sydney, 1915 (consent to the betrothal of the writer's daughter Gladys to the recipient), B. T. Jones, Neath, secretary of the South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association, to Miss [Gladys] Davies, 1917 (condolence on the death of John Davies, the recipient's father), J. L. Wheatley, Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace, City Hall, Cardiff, to James H. Parry, Pandy [1917] (the death of John Davies) (incomplete), and W. A. Townsend, Bedwelty Pits, to Mrs Ben E. Price, Sydney, 1919 (an account of a peace celebration carnival) (enclosed is a photograph of John Davies's grave); pedigrees, largely of Monmouthshire interest, compiled by John Davies and J. A. Bradney (including a chart of the latter's sixteen great-great-grandchildren); a list by John Davies of 'Twynog Jeffreys Papers'; photograph [1936] of the funeral cortege of [E. W. (Eddie) Thomas, Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia, a native of Ferndale; press cuttings relating to the election of John Davies to be Moderator of the Calvinistic Methodist General Assembly, 1915-1916, and the funeral of E. W. Thomas, Katoomba, 1936; etc.

A volume originally used to record membership of the Pandy Medical Aid Society, 1887-1888. The list of members is largely in the autograph of John Davies, and is followed by an address (48 pp.), also in his hand, on 'Billy Bray' [William Bray, Cornish miner and preacher].

'Notes of old Papers found under the Floor of the Attic at the Parrot Inn, Cross Street, Abergavenny, January, 1908'. They include writs of praecipe to the sheriff of Monmouthshire, 1666/7?-1673/4; letters from William Morgan from Lansoare, Langattocke iuxta Carlyon, to Mr. [Thomas?] Gunter at Carlyon, 1 May, [16]68, from Piers Butler to Mr. Thomas Gunter, attorney-at-law, Abergavenny, 16 May, [16]74, from Tho. Pim?, London, to Mrs. Katherin Williams of Abergaveni, 16 April, 1697, etc.; an order of the Committee for Compounding the estates of Recusants and Malignants in respect of the estate of Thomas Gunter of Abergavenny, recusant, in the parishes of Penrhos and Abergavenny, c. 1650; receipts to members of the Gunter family and others, 1688-1720; fragments of seventeenth and early eighteenth century letters, legal papers, accounts, music, and poetry; and references to letters addressed to Mrs. Bellamy who 'apparently lived in this house in the early forties'. The notes are written on the dorse of examination scripts of the Calvinistic Methodist Sunday Schools Union, 1902. Also included in the manuscript is a note on the preaching of Daniel Rowland, Methodist cleric, of Llangeitho, Cardiganshire.

Papers, [1842x1936], of or from the library of John Davies, pastor of Pandy and Forest Coalpit Calvinistic Methodist churches, both in Monmouthshire. The collection largely comprises material of Monmouthshire and Calvinistic Methodist interest and includes autograph sermons, diaries, correspondence and miscellaneous notebooks of John Davies.

Sermons largely by, and in the hand of, John Davies. Such of the sermons as are dated belong to the period 1859-1915 and were delivered at Pandy and Forest Coalpit, Pen-y-clawdd, Tredegar, Abercarn, Llanover, Pontnewynydd, Brecon, Dowlais, Pentre (Rhondda), etc. Dispersed among the sermons are several addresses and speeches by, or in the hand of, John Davies, including on 'Y Gronfa Gynhaliaethol' [Calvinistic Methodist Sustentation Fund]; 'Dewi Sant'; and at Gorwydd in Llangamarch on the occasion of the tercentenary of the death of John Penry, 29 May, 1893 (NLW MS 11356A); on the history of Llanfapley Congregational Church, delivered on 26 June, 1884, and at the centenary of the foundation, 31 August, 1910; and on the history of Castle Street Congregational Church, Abergavenny (NLW MS 11365A); a petition to [the Monmouthshire County Council], undated, to take over a length of road between Pontrilas and Pandy [railway] stations (NLW MS 11369A)); on laying the foundation stone of a new [Calvinistic Methodist] chapel at Llanbedr [Brecknockshire], 11 April, 1884; and on Thomas Charles of Bala (NLW MS 11375A); and on Howel[l] Harris [of Trevecka] (NLW MS 11376A). NLW MS 11360A contains reminiscences (6 pp.) by W[illiam] Samlet Williams of his pastorate (1876-1880) of Felindre, Llys-wen, and Felin-newydd Calvinistic Methodist churches in Brecknockshire.

A notebook containing minutes of the committee of managers of Forest B[ritish] School, parish of Llantilio Pertholey, 1888-1906. Almost the entire volume is in the hand of John Davies, who was originally correspondent and subsequently became chairman of the committee. On the inside upper cover is a note by John Davies, dated 22 March 1907, that by order of the Board of Education the school was henceforth to be called 'Llantillio Pertholey Forest Undenominational School'.

An essay on 'Enwogion Gwent'. The essay corresponds largely to NLW MS 11418E, but contains additional biographies of Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan of Newport, and William Thomas ('Islwyn').

A collection of press cuttings largely of personal, Calvinistic Methodist, and Monmouthshire interest. Also included in the group are a printed circular announcing a proposed testimonial to John Davies [1901], and a printed address to William Griffiths, J. P., Colwinstone, Newport, by the Monmouthshire [Calvinistic Methodist] Monthly Meeting, [c. 1903].

A paper on 'The Romance of Foreign Missions', read [by Gladys Davies, Pandy] to the Congregational Church, Abergavenny, 1914.

An essay, with appendices, written [c. 1870], on 'Methodistiaeth Cymru Hyd 1811' [the history of Calvinistic Methodism to the Ordination of 1811]. At the end of the volume are some accounts of purchases for the house (food, etc.) and payments of taxes made by John Davies during the period 1877-1879.

A notebook originally used as a subscription book for the [Llanfihangel Crucorney?] Whit-Monday athletic sports, [c. 1878]. It was subsequently used by John Davies to record house, hay, coal, maids' wages, and other accounts, 1879-1916; accounts with Pandy C. M. Church, 1883-1916; accounts of a Dairy School at Pandy, 1899; and notes on Monmouthshire genealogies and antiquities.

A paper on 'The Origin of Sunday Schools in Crickhowell and District', read at a centenary meeting at Crickhowell, 17 June, 1885.

An essay on the history of religion in Abergavenny.

Annotated lists of students admitted to Trevecca Calvinistic Methodist college from its opening in 1842 until its closure in 1862 and from its re-opening in 1865 until 1899. The two lists, arranged in chronological order of admission, contain respectively seventy-nine and three hundred and twenty six names, and give in each case also the date of departure.

An address on 'Welsh Castles'.